Patrick McDaniel is an Electrical Engineer at NK Labs. His expertise is in PCB design and bring-up, magnetic systems, instrumentation, numerical simulation, and inverse problems and optimization.

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Patrick previously spent six years working at Mass General Hospital developing technology for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). His work included designing and building portable, low-cost MRI scanners; developing MRI methods for thermometry, motion estimation, and cerebral physiology quantification; and building electronics for MRI RF sub-systems. He is particularly interested in using numerical optimization to generate often-unconventional designs that can actually be fabricated and deployed.

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Patrick received his Bachelor's in Physics and Electrical Engineering, his Masters in Electrical Engineering, and his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from MIT.